442 TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



ing villose many-fruited crowded clusters, oblong, full and rounded at the ends, 

 bright crimson, very lustrous, covered at the ends with scattered pale hairs, V long, 

 and ^' f wide; calyx little enlarged, the lobes elongated, glandular-serrate above 

 the middle, villose on the inner surface, and spreading, or erect and incurved; flesh 

 thin, yellow, juicy and acid; nutlets 3-5, thick, pale brown, deeply and often doubly 

 and irregularly grooved on the back, ^'-' long. 



A tree, sometimes 20 high, with a tall trunk often a foot in diameter, covered 

 with pale gray scaly bark, stout ascending branches forming a broad symmetrical 

 head, and slender zigzag branchlets dark green and covered at first with long matted 

 pale hairs, becoming in their first summer light chestnut-brown and slightly villose, 

 dark chestnut-brown and very lustrous in their second year, and armed with stout 

 straight or somewhat curved dark chestnut-brown shining spines l^'-2' long. 



Distribution. Common in the neighborhood of Rochester, New York. 



VIII. FLABELLAT-S3. 



Stamens 20 ; leaves yellow-green and scabrate above. 



Leaves ovate ; fruit obovate to short-oblong, bright red, often slightly pruinose ; 

 anthers deep rose-purple. 75. C. Neo-Loiidinensis (A). 



Leaves oblong-ovate ; fruit obovate, crimson, lustrous ; anthers pink. 



76. C. Hillii (A). 



Stamens 10-20, usually 10 ; leaves broadly ovate, dull dark green and scabrate above ; fruit 

 short-oblong to slightly obovate, dull red to crimson ; anthers pinkish purple. 



77. C. assurgens (A). 

 Stamens usually 10. 



Fruit on short stout pedicels ; leaves yellow-green and glabrous above. 



Leaves oval, drooping, conspicuously concave ; fruit short-oblong, dark dull red, villose 

 at the ends ; anthers purple. 78. C. Pringlei (A). 



Leaves oval to oblong-ovate ; fruit short-oblong, crimson, very lustrous ; anthers dark 

 reddish purple. 79. C. lobulata (A). 



Fruit on long slender pedicels ; leaves broadly ovate to obovate or rhomboidal, dark rich 

 green and scabrate above ; fruit short-oblong, bright scarlet and lustrous ; anthers rose 

 color. 80. C. pedicellata (A). 



Stamens usually 5-7, rarely 10. 

 Fruit short-oblong. 



Leaves oval or ovate, conspicuously yellow-green ; fruit short-oblong, crimson, lustrous ; 



anthers dark reddish purple. 81. C. Holmesiana (A). 



Leaves oblong-ovate, deep yellow-green, nearly smooth above ; fruit short-oblong, 



yellowish red, glaucous ; anthers pink. 82. C. acclivis (A). 



Fruit globose to obovate. 



Leaves broadly ovate, light yellow-green, lustrous and glabrous above ; fruit bright 



red or scarlet, becoming purplish ; anthers dark rose color. 83. C. delecta (A). 



Leaves oblong-ovate, dark yellow -green and scabrate above ; fruit crimson ; anthers 



pale rose color. 84. C. sertata (A). 



Leaves oblong-ovate, subcoriaceous, dark dull green and glabrous above ; fruit bright 



cherry-red, pruinose ; anthers deep rose color. 85. C. Earnest (A). 



